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List of Ho-Oh Counters

All usable movesets are listed. The movesets are ranked from best to worst (out of the usable movesets), left to right.

Non-Solar Beam:
1: Golem (RT/SE, RT/RB, RT/AP*)
2: Omastar (any moveset without Mud Shot, rock ones are better than water)
3: Raikou (TS/WC, TS/Tb)
4: Zapdos (CB/Tb, CB/ZC)
5: Tyranitar (B/SE)
6: Vaporeon (WG/HP, WG/AT) Tank
7: Dragonite (any moveset without Steel Wing)
8: Gyarados (DT/HP, B/HP, DB/HP*)
9: Lugia (ES/HP, DT/HP) Mega-tank

Solar Beam:
1: Zapdos (CB/Tb, CB/ZC)
2: Raikou (TS/WC, TS/Tb)
3: Dragonite (any moveset without Steel Wing)
4: Gyarados (DT/HP, B/HP, DB/HP*)
5: Golem (RT/RB, RT/AP*, RT/SE)
6: Lugia (ES/HP, DT/HP) Mega-tank
7: Vaporeon (WG/AT, WG/HP)

* Legacy moves

The reason why the optimal movesets for Golem and Vaporeon are different for Solar Beam is because they are weak to Solar Beam. So if they use single bar charge moves, they might not get their charge move off.

Edit: Missed out Dnite and Ttar, added them in

Asked by DragoniteSlayer7 years 5 months ago
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Raikou is better than Zapdos even against SoB. Also I would add DT/O dnite for all movesets (better than gyarados).

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Also keep in mind that because Ho-Oh has massive defense, slower, stronger moves are favored over fast, weak quick moves.

E.G. Tyranitar (Bite), Raikou (Thundershock), and Vaporeon/Omastar/Starmie (Water Gun) suffer Ho-Oh's high defense heavily weakening their quick moves.

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Golem get rekt so fast by steel wing solar beam ho oh you might as well use pidgey

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This. My level-37 came in right as a solar beam hit and went straight out. I had a second right after that couldn't get SE off either.

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That's why Stone Edge sucks for Solar Beam Ho-Oh. Always use Rock Blast ones if you know Ho-Oh has Solar Beam. And make sure they are at least level 30.

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